Kinto Alternatives

kinto reviews and mentions

• Apple's Software Quality Crisis: When Premium Hardware Meets Subpar Software
  7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Mar 2025

  Others have mentioned a few specific distros. There are also tools like https://github.com/RedBearAK/toshy or https://github.com/rbreaves/kinto which make the keyboard and other aspects of the OS behave more Mac-like.

  For me, Toshy's out of the box config make it pretty painless to switch between MacOS and Asahi on the same machine.

• Window-Switcher: Alt+(backtick) same-app window switching for Windows 10/11
  6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Aug 2024

  This is one of my essential quality of life tools:

  https://github.com/rbreaves/kinto

  Decades of using the Mac convention of CMD instead of CTRL makes it hard to switch to CTRL. I get cramping super quickly when using Windows or Linux without Kinto!

  Of course, try explaining that to corporate IT who insist you use a locked down Windows PC... thank god I dont have to endure that anymore!

• US Mac market share grew 22% in Q1, likely helped by new MacBook Air models
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Jun 2024

  I tried to do this manually and it was partially successful, but a nightmare. Most people who want this seem to use and enjoy Kinto, which is supposedly very easy.

  https://kinto.sh/

• RavynOS Finesse of macOS. Freedom of FreeBSD
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Dec 2023
• Learn AutoHotKey by stealing my scripts
  20 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Aug 2023

  If you like macOS keyboard shortcuts, I recommend you checkout Kinto go Windows and Linux. On Windows, Kinto used AHK

  https://kinto.sh

  However, at least when I set it up Kinto did not provide switching windows I’m this fashion. Here is the script I use.

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      ; BRING FORWARD ALL WINDOWS OF THE CURRENT APPLICATION

• Toshy v23.08: Mac-like per-app keyboard shortcuts. Now supports Solus 4.4.
  3 projects | /r/SolusProject | 30 Jul 2023

  The project was based on another project that's been around for a few years called Kinto, by Ben Reaves, which notably also has a Windows version (https://kinto.sh) using AutoHotkey. But has no Wayland support (at this time) in its Linux version.

• Toshy v23.07: Mac-like per-app keyboard shortcuts. Supports Tumbleweed and Leap.
  4 projects | /r/openSUSE | 21 Jul 2023

  Toshy is based on Kinto.sh, by Ben Reaves (https://kinto.sh or https://github.com/rbreaves/kinto). Kinto is basically an extensive keymapper config that not only shifts modifier keys appropriately for different keyboard types, but has full keymaps for a number of different apps like VSCode. My variant of Kinto adds some features and utilities for managing the services that make it work, and tools like a script to change the function keys mode of any keyboard that uses hid_apple. That means MacBook keyboards mostly, but also some non-Apple keyboards with media keys apparently use that driver module.

• Toshy v23.07: Mac-like per-app keyboard shortcuts on KDE (supports Wayland+KDE)
  3 projects | /r/kde | 6 Jul 2023
• Swap alt and win keys using command line
  1 project | /r/kde | 9 Jun 2023

  I don’t know if you can activate it via a keyboard shortcut, but I use Kinto.sh to swap keys on my MacBooks.

• Macbook keyboard type for Fedora
  1 project | /r/Fedora | 3 Jun 2023

  Hello, there's an open issue about this in their repo: https://github.com/rbreaves/kinto/issues/772

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